(this would create 3 partitions on sdb (winshare/system/casper-rw) casper-rw would come in place if you chose to add persistent to the syslinux.cfg file and store all the changes and “system” would be the bootable installation target (sdb2) – winshare speaks for itself)

Next, we will get usb-creator python code to assist us. (we need bzr to get the sourcecode)

$ sudo apt-get install bzr

then…

$ bzr branch lp:usb-creator

create a file with this content and name it usb-creator-cli, place this file in the usb-creator directory (root of bzr branch)

A computer connected to the Internet via the eth0 port (if you have a mobile broadband it would be ppp0).

We want to share the connection via the eth1 port of the same computer.

What we need,

We need basic networking utilities that is, in most cases, comes pre-installed in your GNU/Linux distribution (iptables, ifconfig to be precise).

Yes, we do need some Lan Cables (Crossover cable) to share the connection via the eth1 port of the above mentioned computer.

So, let us begin. Connect your computer to the Internet. If u have a dhcp connection you may use dhclient or dhcpcd. Just do, as root, ‘dhclient eth0′, without the quotes. For connecting to mobile broadband you may use wvdial.

based on meego, sailfish is the first real open source mobile operating system that also runs android apps thanks to myriads alien dalvik. the Qt swipe UI allows to swipe away apps and push them to the multitasking homescreen where the app will act as interactive widget. an application drawer lives underneath the homescreen and can be accessed via swipe up. as seen in meego, the lock screen shows notifications and allows quick-access to the camera, phone, profiles and more with a swipe down. swiping away an app half way allows a glance at the homescreen and whats going on there without leaving the app.

jolla plans to launch the first sailfish phones in the second quarter of 2013.

Jolla Sailfish OS Keynote at Slush Event in Helsinki

Hands On – UI Preview

Detailed UI Preview

it seems that relinux needs a major rework to function properly on 12.04 ( afaik the team knows about this and is already working)

for relinux “iso” to work i had to write the following lines into a terminal first:

sudo bash

WORKDIR=/home/relinux

rm -rf $WORKDIR

mkdir -p $WORKDIR/ISOTMP/casper

mkdir -p $WORKDIR/ISOTMP/preseed

mkdir -p $WORKDIR/dummysys/dev

mkdir -p $WORKDIR/dummysys/etc

mkdir -p $WORKDIR/dummysys/proc

mkdir -p $WORKDIR/dummysys/tmp

mkdir -p $WORKDIR/dummysys/sys

mkdir -p $WORKDIR/dummysys/mnt

mkdir -p $WORKDIR/dummysys/media/cdrom

mkdir -p $WORKDIR/dummysys/var

chmod ug+rwx,o+rwt $WORKDIR/dummysys/tmp

because of a recent change in CASPER it tries to determine username and hostname in a really bad way that leads to errors .. (it takes the livecd lable for username AND hostname or something like that)

i therefore had to hardcode USERNAME and HOST in

/usr/share/initramfs-tools/scripts/casper (lines 692-693)

today i encountered a new problem :

vesamenu.c32: Not a COM32R image

in order to solve this problem i had to overwrite the file “vesamenu.32” located in /syslinux/ on the usb thumbdrive with the original file located in /usr/lib/syslinux/ on my “relinux” system.

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This is just a little bit of unity in kde but since kde is configurable to the max you may choose the level of similarity on your own… There even is “takeoff” launcher, krunner and a HUD – like plugin in development. (And a bunch of other useful widgets for your enjoyment )

I still don’t understand why canonical is using gnome as their base instead of kde.. here is just an other video that shows off kde’s capabilities to mimic unity right out of the box. (but rockstable 😉 )

This does not iron out the problem with the /dev/sr0 message (you could try to disable the floppy in your bios to get rid of this messages) it also leaves the ssl random generator error message and other contradictions you’ll get while using casper and the persistent mode (nothing serious – just not as clean as it could be) but it boots faster than windows7 on my test machines and the kde start, which needs more than 4 reeeeeaaaallly long minutes when using a casper-rw FILE is almost as fast as you would expect it on a hdd install. (still nothing compared to my sdd install ^^)

i would appreciate some ideas for enhancements from someone with more insight on this matter